multiple swap files
How to troubleshoot if multiple swap files occurred in virtual machine o esx host?
View Article"Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early...
During migration to another host I came across 2 Vms that gave an error :" Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on". Restarting management agents on the...
View ArticleAdd Hard Disks for Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi all,We plan to create an Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in vSphere 4.xHere is the requirements: 1.Node1 should have the following disks during normal operation C drive (VMDK) P...
View ArticleIncrease VM disk size in vsphere client?
If I increase the disk size of a guest in the vSphere client by going to the VM's Edit Settings shown in the screenshot - is that the equivalent of the command line "vmkfstools -X 100GB whatever.vmx"?...
View ArticleHow to add hot swap sata hard drive
Specs:Server:33650 M3OS: ESXi 4.1.0RAID config: RAID 0 Hi Everyone, I just bought a 500GB hot swap hard drive, based on the above specs, how do i configure it to become a data store? VM host cant seem...
View Articlevmkernel NIC MAC addresses.
Our networking group would like static (predictable) MAC addresses. As we upgrade to vSphere, I am trying to solve a problem related to this. I can't find any documentation on how to change the MAC...
View ArticleThree VMs with same SID, what to do?
I deployed three Win2008 R2 VMs from the same template and made the mistake of not using customization to change the SID. I have verified using PsGetsid that all three have the same SID. These three...
View ArticleStateless event alarm - False Alarm
Hello, We are receiving false alarm from our vCenter for a particular hosts. I have been receiving this alarm few months backup on all my hosts, after re-configuring the alarm would stop generating...
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ESX 4, MD3000 - Virtual Disk Not On Preferred Path
Hello All, I have two clusterred ESX 4 working on Dell R805 each and it works with Dell MD3000 Matrix. Each ESX has two iscsi controllers, one is with "red" ip range and one with "blue" ip range, then...
View ArticleEssentials Plus vCenter linked mode to vCenter standard?
Is it possible (and allowed) to install the vCenter foundation version from the essentials plus bundle in a linked mode to connect to vCenter standard in our central location? like this...vCenter...
View ArticleSnapshot issue. Snapshots with same CID and PID
I have an open ticket with VMware but cannot get support until Monday due to it not being a server down issue. Anyways, I use Veeam for my backup solution for VMware. For whatever reason, the...
View ArticleStarting vmware-aam:Timed out waiting for vmware-aam to startup......
VMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-260247 -- This server is out of the management of my virtual center... the server is up and functional.. tried restarting the mangement agents on the server using...
View ArticleESX 4.1. Disable TCP Checksum offload
Hi All,This is my first post on this forum. We have problems with connection between application server and sql server. Both servers are running Windows server 2008 R2 and are hosted on the same ESX....
View ArticleESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions
Dear team, ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions. Need to understand LAHF and SAHF, and how it's work? RegardsMr VMware
View ArticleVmotion Error
Hi, When i put the ESX box maintenance mode, only first 2 vms will migrate, then other servers shows the below error"General system error occoured; Internal error" if i tried to migrate manually, it...
View Article[VMware vCenter - Alarm Host connection failure] Host hostname.local is not...
Hi All, We are receiving the below alarm frequently on our ESX hosts. The alarm triggers and gets closed within19 or 20 seconds. We don't see any issues during the alarm. We have checked hostd, vpxa...
View ArticleBest Practice to install VMware Tools
Dear Team, I want to install / upgrade VMware tools on Rhel and SUSE Linux VM, have following queries on the same 1) Before installing / upgrade VMware tools shall i take a clone or snapshot first, if...
View ArticleESX 4 and IPMI / Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
Does anybody else use the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator software on their ESX hosts? I am doing a clean/new install of ESX 4 on a Dell PowerEdge R900 server. I have installed the OMSA without...
View ArticleIIS performance 50% slower on a VM?
I've got a cluster of IIS Servers that we host our web application on. Recently, we converted several of our web servers from physical machines to virtual machines. By converted, I mean we built a...
View ArticlevSphere Client Connection Error
I'm trying to log into one of ESX v4.1 servers. When I connect i get the error: Connection Error: The request failed because the remote server 'IP ADDRESS' took too long to respond. (The command has...
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